Puzzle.



Patented Mar. I8, I902,

A. G. HANSON.

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(Application filed July 18, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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TED TATES ATENT ALBERT G. HANSON, OF WESTHAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO LEIVIS I. DE MERITTE, OF LEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,455, dated March 18, 1902.

Application filed July 13, 1901.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. HANSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westhaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

The object of my invention is to provide a puzzle of a new and improved form of exceeding intricacy, but'of cheap construction.

To such end the same consists, in substance, of a wire base-piece provided with end portions turned inward toward one another, one provided with a small and the other with a large loop, the radii of which are at right angles to one another, a'wire center piece provided with a rear loop secured at the forward central portion in the small loop of the base portion and of such size as to extend below the large loop of such base portion, such center piece having an end wire extending upward through the mainor large loop of the base-piece, over the forward edge thereof, down through its own loop, and thence backward to a point adjacent to the rear of the base-piece, and a loop of chain or flexible cord.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved puzzle, showing the chain-loop in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a like view thereof in the first position; Fig. 3, a view in the second; Fig. 4, a view in the third; Fig.' 5, a view in the fourth; Fig. (3, a view in the fifth; and Fig. 7, a view in the sixth and last position, the dotted lines showing the chain-loop in the act of dropping from the end wire of the center piece.

My improved form of puzzle is formed of brass or other suitable metallic wireand con: sists of a base-piece 8, bent upon itself at: either end toward the center at 10 and 11 and provided atthe end adjacent to 11 with a small vertical ring or loop 12 and at the end adjacent to the loop 10 with a large horizontal loop 13. Secured at one side in the small Serial No. 68,125. (No model.)

little beyond the rear edge of the loop 13. 6o

The reference-numeral 17 designates an endless flexible loop, usually of the form of a metallic chain of small links. The chain 17 being in position upon the base-piece, having' the end loops 10 and 11 passing around such wire, as shown in Fig. .1,such base-piece is lifted into the position shown in Fig. 2, with the loop 10 uppermost, and by taking hold of the chain 17 M19 by deft manipulation the other end 20 of'such chain-loop is allowed to drop by gravity through the loop 13 and down over the loop 15, as shown in such Fig. 2. The device isthen shifted into the horizontal position shown in Fig. 3, and the loop 20 is passed down toward the loop 10 and around the end 16, when the parts will be in the position shown in Fig.5, when, bypassing the chain up around the loop 20 ,into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, if now the device be placedintheupright position shown in Fig. 6 the bight 20 may be turned off from theend wire'16 of the center piece 9, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7, when the chain portion or loop'17 will be entirely free from the wire portion of the device and may be, again placed in position thereon by a reversal of the process just described.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A puzzle consisting of a base-piece of wire bent upon itself provided with an end loop, a center piece secured to the other end of the base-piece having a loop lying in the 5 same direction as the loop of the base-piece, the end wire of which loop extends up through the loop of the base-piece down through the loop of the center piece and under the loop of the base-piece, and an endless loop of flexi- 10o ble material, substantially as shown and described.

2. A puzzle consisting of a base-piece of wire bent upon itself at both ends and having a large loop formed in one end, and a small loop formed in the other end in a plane at a right angle to the first loop, a center piece having a large loop secured in the small loop, which large loop extends under the large loop of the center piece, and one end of the wire of which center piece extends up through the large loop of the center piece and in a large loop at a right angle to both loops down through theloop of the center piece and back under the large loop of the base-piece, and an endless loop of flexible material, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT G. HANSON.

\Vitnesses:

L. R. BAYER, F. F. TELLER. 

